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Since 1933, we have subsidized farming in america. Is that a good idea . And who benefits . The small farmer big agribusiness or, at the end of the chain, the consumer . The story of the American Farmer is one of the great ironies of the modern era. Incredibly productive, but frequently unprofitable. Its a story that too often ends like this. Perfect competition and inelastic demand can the farmer make a profit . Economic analyst richard gill and i will examine that question on this edition of economics u a. Im david schoumacher. You can see the forces that control a Farmers Economic wellbeing at work here at this farmers market. Taken together it demonstrates a concept that economists call perfect competition. In other words, every farmer who raises, say, tomatoes, is in competition with every other farmer who raises tomatoes. The market determines the price through the interplay of supply and demand. So the farmer is a price taker, not a price maker, and he tries to produce at the lo

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